European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 16, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday november 16,1993 Kohl pushes Trade at talks in China Beijing apr German Chancellor Hel Mut Kohl told chinese Premier i Peng on Mon Day that his country is eager to expand business contacts and Trade with China. Me specifically told i that Germany has no problem cooperating with China in developing nigh technology a pointed reference to against providing China with some High technology that can be used militarily. Kohl met with i for 2vi hours on the first Day of his six Day visit to China. He arrived with a 180-member delegation that includes four ministers and 40 German industrialists. Among them Are top executives from Volkswagen Bow Mercedes Benz and Airbus industries. In a departure from Normal practice Kohl re fused to enter a chinese red Flag limousine for the trip from the Airport to his hotel and instead clambered aboard a mis for delegation members. Kohl also has refused to stay at the state guest House choosing the German run Kempinski hotel instead. The main purpose of Kohl s visit his fourth Sochina is to try to boost business with the country to make up for losses from Germany s decision not to sell submarines to Taiwan. Foreign ministry spokesman we Jianmin said that the chinese Leader expressed Beijing s appreciation of Germany s position not to sell arms to Taiwan or establish official contacts. I Buttafuoco gets 6 months on statutory rape charge Mineola n. Y. A Joey Buttafuoco the married Man who admitted an affair with the underage Long is land Lolita Amy Fisher was sentenced monday to the maximum six months in jail for statutory rape. Fisher who is serving five to 15 years for shooting Buttafuoco s wife last year had asked judge Jack Mackston to make it a punishment that will Send a message to other teen agers like her. If i had been allowed to Cross the Bridge betwee adolescence and adulthood unmolested by Buttafuoco would not be where i am today said Fisher in a statement at the hearing. The Case launched to movies talk show jokes and Amedia frenzy. Last month after More than a year of de Nying that he had relations with Fisher Buttafuoco pleaded guilty to statutory rape saying he had sex Wither in a Motel in 1991, when she was 16. She is now 19. Buttafuoco 37, was led away in Handcuffs. He could be out of jail in four months. He also was sentenced to five years probation and a $5,000 Fine also the Maxi mum. _ he made no statement to the judge. His lawyer urged leniency saying most recent statutory rape defendants inthe county had received probation. The prosecution agreed to take no position on Butta Fuoco s sentencing. Mary to Buttafuoco pleaded last week on television for no jail time for her husband. Hours before the court session monday morning scores of reporters and dozens of camera Crews were at Buttafuoco Fisher the courthouse. Satellite trucks stretched for a 100 Yards along the Street. The Case burst into the headlines in May 1992, when Fisher Bent on Clearing the Way for her life with Joey Buttafuoco rang the Buttafuoco front door Bell an shot Mary to Buttafuoco. The wife was severely injured. And still suffers health truth came out after Joey Buttafuoco walked at Al lowing a blood test and a physical exam. The tests could have backed up two of Fisher s claims that Buttafuoco gave her herpes and that he had a mole on his inner thigh. T Lan Stuhl bomb scare interrupts his hot line Lan Stuhl Germany is scare at the Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center on Friday left the army s newly installed his information hot line unanswered for almost three hours a Center spokeswoman said Mon Day. The hot line offices Are in the medical enter s clinical services division which is in one of two buildings that were evacuated. At approximately 12 45 . Friday a suspicious package was discovered at the medical Center s consolidated mail room Marie Shaw said. For Security reasons the loading Dock of the mail room was declared off limits the Adja cent administrative building was evacuated and the parking lot was the area was declared Safe about 3 30p.m., Shaw said. The bomb threat sent army posts and air Force bases in the Kaiserslautern military Community into heightened Alert until the All Clear came. The incident is under Shaw said. Investigation Friday was a training Holiday for 7th medical come and Many medical Center people were Given the Day off. Normally the hot line which can be reached by calling Dan 486-8888 or civil Ian 06371-86-8188, is staffed weekdays from 7 30 . To 4 30 . Establishment of the hot line follows a scandal Over German blood products potentially tainted with the human immunodeficiency virus which causes aids. Shaw said several Calls were receive Don the hot line Friday before the bomb scare. The person designated to take phone queries on tainted mood answered those Calls Friday until the evacuation Shaw said. However a caller told the stars and stripes on Friday that she had been told to Call some other time because no one was there who could help her. Bishops offer our full support to Cardinal accused of sex abuse Washington a . Catholic Bishops be ginning their annual fall meeting monday rallied around a Chicago Cardinal accused of sex abuse. Some 300 prelates gave Cardinal Joseph l. Bernar Din a standing ovation As archbishop William h. Keel or president of the National conference of Catholic Bishops said he was confident Bernardin would be vindicated. To Cardinal Bernardin we offer our support our full support Keeler said. Bernardin expressed his gratitude in a soft spoken voice. My dear Brothers 1 am deeply moved by this expression of support Bernardin said. From the Bot Tom of my heart i thank earlier Bishop John f. Kinney head of a special task Force on clergy sex abuse also defended Bernar Din accused in a lawsuit Friday of sexually abusing a teen Ager More than a decade ago. I believe him when he goes before his people and the whole country to say he is innocent Kinney said. The Agenda for the four Day meeting includes pro posed major pastoral statements on foreign policy that Call on the United states to combat a grounds we of isolationism and to continue to intervene in regional conflicts in areas such As the Balkans and Somalia. The Bishops also were scheduled to discuss a statement on marriage and the family that encourage Catholic husbands and wives to share household and parenting responsibilities. But the allegations of sexual abuse against Bernardin Leader of the nation s second largest Catholic Arch diocese have cast a Cloud Over the fall gathering. In the lawsuit Steven j. Cook 34, alleged that Ber Nardin sexually abused him Between 1975 and 1977, when Cook was in a High school program at a Cincinnati Seminary. Bernardin who was archbishop of Cincinnati from1972 to 1982, has called the allegations totally when the lawsuit was announced Friday Curren Cincinnati archbishop Daniel e. Pilarczyk immediate past president of the Bishops conference said the allegations against Bernardin Are rubbish and deserving of nothing but contempt gunmen kill key Arafat aide in Lebanon Heidelberg area crash kills postal manager Heidelberg Germany is an army civilian worker who supervised the Heidelberg shopping Center Post office died Friday night Ina one car Accident in nearby Schwet Zingen. Eddie Paul Craig 49, of ofter sheim died when his car crashed through a construction site bar Rier and hit excavation machinery about 11 15p.m., according to the 411th base support in. The Warren ark., native first came to Heidel Berg in 1978 As a Soldier assigned to . Army Europe Headquarters. After military retirement in 1982, he worked for the american red Cross the army and air Force Exchange service Anchase Manhattan Bank before obtaining a Job with the Post office system in 1988.craig served three Tours of duty in Vietnam and earned the Bronze Star. His survivors include his son Edward m. Craig of a Jakstadt daughters Shannon l. Shanahan and Shelly a. Wagner of Ukiah. Calif. His father James a. Craig of Ukiah Brothers James t. And 5aih�y a Crai of Ukiah an Ster. Nancy , of Washington state. A memorial service is scheduled for 2 Pra wednesday in the Patrick Henry Village Chapel in Heidelberg. Burial will be in Ukiah. Saida Lebanon a gunmen killed a senior aide to Yasser Arafat on monday in the sixth attack on Plo officials since the israeli palestinian peace accor was signed. Four senior supporters of the Plo chairman have been killed in the israeli occupied territories since the Accord was signed sept. 13. But it was not immediately Clear whether the latest assassination was linked to the pact or to infighting Between factions in the Palestine liberation said a gunman using a Silencer equipped Pis Tol shot it. Col. Mouveen Shabata six times in the head at an Entrance to Saida a Southern port City and site of ancient Sidon. The 50-year-old Shabata died several hours later Ina local Hospital. He was the second in command of the 3,000-Strong militia that Arafat s Fatah faction maintains in Saida s Ein Al Hilweh refugee Camp. A top Arafat aide Zeid Wehbe was wounded in similar assassination attempt in Saida on nov. 9. Fatah blamed that attempt on the breakaway Plo faction led by terrorist Mastermind Abu Nidal. British Jet slices Power lines Oslo Norway a a British harrier Jet on a Nevers Cut through two High voltage Power lines while flying at Low Altitude monday yet managed to landsat in. The mishap left parts of Arctic Tromson county without Power and the Jet was damaged. The Pilot was extremely Lucky said command ou1 Espen uen he said no one was in
